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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

John Dryden

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking

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